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Who Is This?

I'm a girl. I live in Wisconsin with my husband. We have a cat named Zelda, a houseplant named Lindsey, an herb garden on our balcony that is always *thisclose* to being nothing more than soil, and a habit of watching Criminal Minds until way past an appropriate bedtime. I'm a grad school flunkie with leftover angsty feelings from that time in my life. I can't parallel park or ride my bike with no hands. I can teach systems of equations, though, so I feel like I've gotten a fair shake in life.

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Past Musings

Tuesday, May 06, 2014

FiveThirtyEight recently conducted a survey of self-identified midwesterners, asking them which states they consider to actually be in the midwest. I have some pretty definite opinions on this matter, but reading the article made me think about all the traveling I've been doing in the midwest this year. Here's what I have decided: we're not selling the midwest enough with our state slogans. Let's get more truthful ones.

Iowa
Current Slogan: Fields of opportunity
New Slogan: More than just cornfields. We have soybean fields, too!!

Illinois
Current Slogan: Mile after magnificent mile (NOTE: What? You see that slogan around Michigan Avenue, but otherwise, it's as if Illinois has no other identity than that of its favorite sons, Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama...)
New Slogan: Drive as fast as your car will go or we will run you off the road.

Indiana
Current Slogan: Honest-to-goodness, Indiana (NOTE: WTF, Indiana? This is the best you have? Also, the only slogan I know is the above "Crossroads of America" which I've always interpreted as "drive across I-80 with your illegal drugs.")
New Slogan: Noisome neighborhoods coming your way.

Ohio
Current Slogan: So much to discover
New Slogan: A great place to live if you're not poor!

Michigan
Current Slogan: Great Lakes, Great Times (NOTE: I actually really like one)
New Slogan: We're not just Detroit.

Minnesota
Current Slogan: Explore Minnesota (NOTE: I actually like this one, too)
New Slogan: Cold? What cold?

Wisconsin
Current Slogan: Stay just a little bit longer
New Slogan: Welcome. Now just move over to the right-hand lane because all the slow drivers will stay 4 miles per hour below the speed limit in the passing lane